White House Security Adviser Bolton and Ambassador to Washington Kılıç have held a meeting. Reporting the meeting, Bloomberg correspondent has said, “Fed up with Turkey, Trump is refusing to offer anything else in exchange for Pastor Brunson”

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s hubris has destablised a nation of pivotal regional importanceHubris begets nemesis, as the ancient Greeks opined. It’s a life lesson Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s arrogant leader, appears unable to absorb as his country teeters over an abyss of his making. Erdoğan argued in June’s elections that an all-powerful executive presidency was the best way to govern – and he was the best man for the job. His wish was granted. Now Turkey is in crisis. The fall from grace – this shattering of the omnipotent strongman-sun king image – has come more quickly than anybody imagined. And since Erdoğan is in sole charge these days, he will be hard put to avoid sole blame.

Calling out to US President Donald Trump by saying, “You can be a President all you want,” President Erdoğan has stated that the movements in the foreign exchange do not have an economic basis. Erdoğan has also added, “There are several economic terror figures on social media.”

The Kremlin said on Aug. 13 that Russia favoured bilateral trade with all countries in their national currencies, rather than the dollar, but that the idea needed detailed work before being implemented.

The currency crash and high inflation have made lives harder, with many blaming Erdoğan

On a normal day, Abdulmecit’s barber shop not far from the medieval Galata tower in Istanbul would be bustling with customers. A week before the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, men would stream in for a shave or haircut before the holidays.

US president believed he had secured deal with Turkish president to secure release of pastor, sources say

The currency plunge imperilling Turkey’s economy has been fuelled by a standoff between Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over the fate of a Turkish woman detained in Israel whose freedom the US president brokered, and an American pastor held in Turkeywhose release he demands in return, officials in Ankara have claimed.

There is not an easy way for Turkey to escape its financial crisis but three measures that might contain the coming pain would be these. First, raise interest rates to try to put a floor under the plunging lira. Second, tone down the bellicose rhetoric and certainly don’t pick new fights with the US. Third, call the International Monetary Fund.

Peso and rand are knock-on casualties of currency slide after lira falls 8% against dollar

A fresh plunge in the Turkish lira sent tremors through global currency markets on Monday, amid fears that the failure of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government to tackle its worsening financial crisis would have a domino effect on other vulnerable countries.

The Turkish lira was trading sharply lower on Monday even after the country’s central bank announced measures to shore up the financial system amid warnings of a deepening crisis. The beleaguered currency fell as much as 11 per cent to a new record

An economic destabilization of #Turkey is in no one's interest. We call on the United States and Turkey to solve their problems through constructive diplomatic engagement. Read our statement below: pic.twitter.com/cviqpsnqR5

With Turkish-American relations souring, the focus should be on freeing the imprisoned American citizens and Turkish staff of the United States embassy.

Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office launches investigation about people who “threat economic security” by sharing information about plunge of Turkish lira and related stories which serves “economic attack” against Turkey on social media. https://t.co/6B31CU8lac

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The Turkish lira sank to a fresh record low of 7.24 to the dollar in early Asia Pacific trade, as investor worries over the state of the economy and deteriorating ties with the United States continued to drag down the currency

As everyone knows, there are two sides to every trade. With more than 80 million Turks substantially poorer following a plunge in their currency, the winners were foreigners behind the velvet ropes at Istanbul’s Istinye Park Mall. They were lining

A picture representing a mugshot of the Twitter bird–Twitter’s logo–is seen on a smartphone with a Turkish flag on March 26, 2014, in Istanbul, during the ban of the platform for about two weeks in the country. (AFP/Ozan Kose)

On June 19, Abdülhamit Bilici, the last editor-in-chief of the now-shuttered Turkish paper Zaman,tweeted about the decline of press freedom in his home country. If you can see his tweet, you are probably not in Turkey because it is among the over 1.5 million tweets belonging to journalists and media outlets censored there under Twitter’s “country withheld content” (CWC) policy.Since 2012, 13 countries have used Twitter’s CWC tool to effectively censor content, according to the social media platform’s transparency reports. Governments usually cite laws around national security, counter-terrorism, defamation, or hate speech when requesting removals.

Internet connectivity will be partially disrupted throughout Turkey from the 10th of August to protect a Qatar-owned media group’s sports broadcasting rights.

Turkish courts have ordered the periodic disruption of all internet live video streams in Turkey provided by Twitter Inc. under the Periscope service, known as Scope in Turkey, at times when Turkish premier league soccer matches are being aired by the group’s Digitürk brand.

As the currency plunges holidays in Turkey get cheaper but markets fear of contagion

Turkey’s currency is in freefall, its exports face US sanctions, inflation is rising but its president is defiant. So what’s going on in the country with 80 million inhabitants that is a key Nato ally?

All are on edge in Turkey bracing for worst tomorrow. Will the Turkish Lira continue to slide? Its at a critical stage+if it does not gain strength, the economy seems certain to crash–the current state seems unsustainable. Here are some everyday examples+numbers explaining why.

For the last seven years, Tim Lee has been warning that a financial crisis in Turkey would set off a wider calamity in global markets. Just about nobody listened — until now. A plunge in the Turkish lira and the prospect that the country

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan tried to restore confidence in the Turkish lira after it plunged by more than 20% against the dollar on Friday. The sudden drop came when Donald Trump announced on Twitter he was doubling US import tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminium.

The Minister of Finance and Customs Albayrak delivered his speech at the publicity meeting, where he introduced the “New Economic Model”, when the exchange rate of US Dollar was 6.13 TRY. In the course of his speech, the exchange rate has hit 6.56 TRY.

The president’s decision, announced in a tweet, raised the possibility of further tariff escalations with China and other countries whose currencies are falling against the dollar.

Nearly all the currency exchange places in this part of Istanbul have stopped updating their rates. There’s small crowds inside, workers watching screens nervously. Note the difference between buying and selling dollars. pic.twitter.com/TdAGvMpODw

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Aug. 10 he had authorized higher tariffs on imports from Turkey, imposing a 20 percent duty on aluminum and 50 percent one on steel, as tensions mount between the two NATO allies over Ankara’s imprisonment of an evangelical pastor and other diplomatic issues.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The Turkish lira tumbled to a record low against the dollar on Monday, after the Trump administration said it was reviewing Turkey’s duty-free access to the U.S. market, a move that could affect some $1.66 billion

Turkey’s relations with the United States have been unremittingly rotten for some time. They took a sharp turn for the worse when last week the U.S. Treasury slapped Turkey’s interior and justice ministers with sanctions inspired by the Global

Objects—pieces of paper, coins, lumps of precious metal—may serve as currency and represent specific monetary values, but what underpins the exchange of money is trust. We trust that our money will retain its value, that others will be willing to trade for it, and that it will still be in the bank when we come back for it. In recent years, cryptocurrency has emerged as a disruptive alternative to traditional money. Fundamentally, cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum function by replacing trust in banks and the government with trust in digital cryptography.

Suzana Herculano-Houzel spent most of 2003 perfecting a macabre recipe—a formula for brain soup. Sometimes she froze the jiggly tissue in liquid nitrogen, and then she liquefied it in a blender. Other times she soaked it in formaldehyde and then mashed it in detergent, yielding a smooth, pink slurry.

This model at the Museum of London depicts the first bridge over the River Thames, which was built by the Romans in the first century. Steven G. Johnson/Wikimedia Commons

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons.

Our knowledge about the people who lived in Roman Britain has undergone a sea change over the past decade. New research has rubbished our perception of it as a region inhabited solely by white Europeans. Roman Britain was actually a highly multicultural society that included newcomers and locals with black African ancestry and dual heritage, as well as people from the Middle East.

I’ve spent a good chunk of my life hiking the U.S. Southwest, and I’ve kicked my share of sharp rocks and prickly cactuses as I’ve walked across hot sandy stretches of desert. My hiking boots usually provide adequate protection, but I’ve endured an abundance of cuts, burns, and punctures. So I’ve often wondered: What did people do to protect their feet 1,000 years ago? And that begs another question: Did ancient people need footwear, or were their feet so tough and weathered that they could go barefoot most of the time?

Archaeologists are uncovering footprints on beaches from Canada to South Africa. The oldest human footprints, one of which is shown here, were found in Tanzania and date back over 3 million years. John Reader/Science Photo Library

This article was originally published in Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com.

Just below the South African village of Brenton-on-Sea, there’s a beach that looks like something out of a tourism brochure: a tiny, sheltered bay with 50 meters of sandy beach at low tide, backed by 100-meter sea cliffs rising into a blue sky. Right where sand and cliffs meet, there is a low-ceilinged cave carved out of the surrounding stone by pounding waves.

The Inca Empire (1400–1532) is one of few ancient civilizations that speaks to us in multiple dimensions. Instead of words or pictograms, the Incas used khipus—knotted string devices—to communicate extraordinarily complex mathematical and narrative information. But, after more than a century of study, we remain unable to fully crack the code of the khipus. The challenge rests not in a lack of artifacts—over 1,000 khipus are known to us today—but in their variety and complexity. We confront tens of thousands of knots tied by different people, for different purposes, and in different regions of the empire. Cracking the code amounts to finding a pattern in history’s knotted haystack.

A new report from the Institute For the Future on “state-sponsored trolling” documents the rise and rise of government-backed troll armies who terrorize journalists and opposition figures with seemingly endless waves of individuals who bombard their targets with vile vitriol, from racial slurs to rape threats.

Following the Charlie Hebdo shootings in January 2015, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a message reflecting on religion, free expression and the controversial editorial line of the magazine….

Nearly a decade ago a 47-year-old black woman named Denise Green was pulled from her vehicle and held at gunpoint by six San Francisco police officers. One of them pointed a shotgun at her face, another handcuffed her and directed her to kneel. Despite having a history of knee problems, Green complied with every order given. Twenty minutes later she was released, free to go about her life. The police initially suspected Green of driving a stolen vehicle when a machine learning algorithm designed to scan license plates misidentified hers, and incorrectly flagged her car as stolen.

Until now, Facebook has appeared to be immune to the litany of scandals its business has generated over the past couple of years, with ever-increasing growth in revenue and users and an unsinkable stock price. On Wednesday, its ability to coast on its years of success finally seemed to give out. On an earnings call with investors, Facebook reported that its revenue grew by 42 percent over the same time last year, reaching $13.2 billion for the quarter—a number that was lower than the $13.3 billion analysts expected. The slight miss may have been what sent Facebook’s stock plunging more than 23 percent after the call in after-hours trading, but more likely it’s what’s going on with some of the social network’s metrics.